For a fun and very readable trip to the glories of the sixties, I recommend the books STORMING HEAVEN and BIRTH OF A PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE. It is a shame that free thought has been replaced by totalitarian bigotry in the West.
Thanks! The first has been on my list for years now, but I hadn't heard of the second.
Storming Heaven is often mentioned in the same breath with Acid Dreams, which I did read a long time ago and can recommend wholeheartedly too. I think it's the same exact territory, but focuses more on the CIA & MKULTRA.
How would I describe my path? I'm a retired school psychologist and took a very conventional path, as I'm a very linear thinker, so it's fascinating to see the workings of a mind who is, like, the OPPOSITE of linear! :) Maybe that's why I enjoyed working with children so much. (Adults like you are lucky enough to have retained your child-like creativity and novel perspective of the world - or is that the psychedelics?! ) I found this interesting: "I could start writing again because now every thing I would write would add to this big beautiful vision, my work would now be coherent, even if secretly so. Of course, I never completed that schema." My analytical mind thought, "If something is only secretly coherent, then most people will not perceive its coherence." Most people in our linear culture have been conditioned to prefer writing that is coherent. Is that what's holding you back? Your writing in Substack is coherent, but a book is more challenging than a brief article. If writing is your dream and your passion, perhaps you could learn to be more linear/coherent if that's a concern, and if that thought does not appeal to you (as it probably wouldn't to most creatives), then maybe find an outlet for your creativity through some other medium, like your awesome artwork. Perhaps stick with humorous writing? It can be more disjointed so long as it's funny. Perhaps combine your writing and art in humorous cartoons. Too bad we don't have newspapers any more, but believe it or not, I'm a linear-minded person who owns quite a few cartoon books! I laughed out loud at the proposed audience of your book, "Americans afraid of the coming totalitarianism as wisdom from people who know.” Maybe that says more about me! Even if you can't help the half of us Americans who are fearful, perhaps you can help us cope by employing your humor!
>>>>Slav and slave are conveniently related terms.
I think this is apocryphal at best. If I remember correctly, the consensus is that "slav" is more likely related to the word "slovo", which is also all kinds of meaningful.
For a fun and very readable trip to the glories of the sixties, I recommend the books STORMING HEAVEN and BIRTH OF A PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE. It is a shame that free thought has been replaced by totalitarian bigotry in the West.
Thanks! The first has been on my list for years now, but I hadn't heard of the second.
Storming Heaven is often mentioned in the same breath with Acid Dreams, which I did read a long time ago and can recommend wholeheartedly too. I think it's the same exact territory, but focuses more on the CIA & MKULTRA.
How would I describe my path? I'm a retired school psychologist and took a very conventional path, as I'm a very linear thinker, so it's fascinating to see the workings of a mind who is, like, the OPPOSITE of linear! :) Maybe that's why I enjoyed working with children so much. (Adults like you are lucky enough to have retained your child-like creativity and novel perspective of the world - or is that the psychedelics?! ) I found this interesting: "I could start writing again because now every thing I would write would add to this big beautiful vision, my work would now be coherent, even if secretly so. Of course, I never completed that schema." My analytical mind thought, "If something is only secretly coherent, then most people will not perceive its coherence." Most people in our linear culture have been conditioned to prefer writing that is coherent. Is that what's holding you back? Your writing in Substack is coherent, but a book is more challenging than a brief article. If writing is your dream and your passion, perhaps you could learn to be more linear/coherent if that's a concern, and if that thought does not appeal to you (as it probably wouldn't to most creatives), then maybe find an outlet for your creativity through some other medium, like your awesome artwork. Perhaps stick with humorous writing? It can be more disjointed so long as it's funny. Perhaps combine your writing and art in humorous cartoons. Too bad we don't have newspapers any more, but believe it or not, I'm a linear-minded person who owns quite a few cartoon books! I laughed out loud at the proposed audience of your book, "Americans afraid of the coming totalitarianism as wisdom from people who know.” Maybe that says more about me! Even if you can't help the half of us Americans who are fearful, perhaps you can help us cope by employing your humor!
In the psychedelics class you took was there any mention of the problems with Ketamine?
>>>>Slav and slave are conveniently related terms.
I think this is apocryphal at best. If I remember correctly, the consensus is that "slav" is more likely related to the word "slovo", which is also all kinds of meaningful.